Showing posts with label red. Show all posts
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Photos of Nice at night

Just some pictures this morning - I'm not yet awake enough to write real words. After I've had coffee I might make this post slightly more explanatory.(Or not. The beauty of this blog is its uncertainty, I find...)

Nice, last night, around Place Massena and Cours Saleya. It's clearly nearly Christmas...


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Place Massena

Christmas decorations in Nice

Christmas decorations in Nice

Nice Old Town

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Sunrise and strikes

There's a general strike on all across France today, protesting the pension reform that Sarkozy is trying to introduce. Pretty much no public transport is running - it's a good thing we're not getting married this weekend instead!

There was, however, a train at some unearthly hour of the morning and my new husband went to get it, so I happened to be awake to watch sunrise this morning. It was quite pretty.

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The moon

The moon is an odd colour tonight.

Moon pictures

Moon pictures

Moon pictures

Moon pictures

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Airplanes! In the sky! Painting pretty colours!

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Nice becoming part of France, and this weekend is apparently full of events to celebrate. I'll try to keep an eye out for them to share with you, my lovely readers. (All 3 of you.)

Yesterday while I was walking from a friend's house to the pub to meet Paul after work, I saw planes, lots of planes, flying very fast and doing pretty looping thingies and all that, with red, white and blue smoke trailing. They were, I'm told, practising for the finale of the weekend's celebrations, and will do the same on Monday - I'll try to have a better camera with me, rather than just my mobile...

They finished by drawing us a picture of a heart in red and blue, and then punctuating it with an arrow through the middle. I was impressed - but not as impressed as everyone around me who started clapping. I'm not sure I quite understand people who clap things like that - it's not like the pilots are going to hear you... But it was awesome to watch the planes playing with each other and dancing. (And yes, oh ye of little faith, they were, in fact, dancing. Not just flying around aimlessly.)

Some (poor) mobile phone photos:

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Sunshine and bank holiday weekends

Sun and bank holidays have combined forces and ensured that I've been utterly incapable of posting anything here. Having friends over has meant we had to tidy - our house is spotless, and I've even mopped. Me, with a mop. I can hardly believe it myself.

My experiments into wheat-free cooking continue - I'm trying to make bread out of chickpea flour today.

The dough:

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The dough sitting in the warm sun to raise:
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I have my doubts, but we shall see what happens - it might work... I shall be sure to take photos of the finished product for you.

While we're looking at photos, this is the best view in the world. It's from the bar I drink coffee at in the afternoons.

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You can also have some pretty pictures of flowers - the roses are out in bloom here, and I liked what Beaulieu have done with their roses around the big trees in the park. (We walk through it to go to the supermarket sometimes.)

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And one of the large red flowers that grows in the street between here and the bakery:
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(All photos taken with my mobile phone, so apologies for any quality issues...)

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TAD - Day 25: a pearl and sterling silver bracelet

I appear to have completely forgotten to post this yesterday. Bad me. I blame the sunshine - it's nice weather here again finally!

Anyway, yesterday's Thing was a red and white freshwater pearl bracelet, wrapped in argentium sterling silver and finished with a handmade argentium toggle clasp.

Today's Thing will come later, as inspiration strikes...

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